a couple years ago I took an old shot out .243 and just re barreled it in an 8 twist .243 (X-caliber) to shoot the 108 gr ELDMs for varmints and to dabble in the long range game. I put an Athlon Argos BTR 6-24x on cuz I didn't want to sale a kidney to glass a gun that was really just built to play around with and didn't really plan on getting to wound up in the long range stuff. Bottom line is it shoots better than I had hoped by a long shot. That ELDM does everything I want to do on things from Prairie dogs to Coyotes and can ring a gong at 1000 with regularity. I went that way just cuz I didn't want to join the creed band wagon and I had all the reloading stuff for .243 including 1000 pieces of brass. It was all done on a half assed budget and was a crap load of fun.
